Locality:
Realty Map: 106.00-2-31 Cultural
Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map: Garden
City Landform: Ridge top
Grid Locus: C-11 Elevation: 1240 feet
UTM Easting: 590950 Aspect: Northeast
UTM Northing: 4112690
Site Dimensions: 80 by 62 by 77.7 by 59.7 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a small family cemetery with 13 graves. The observed graves included eight marked
with cast cement markers, four marked with granite markers, and one marked with
a marble marker. All of the graves
ranged in orientation from 110 to 115 degrees.
The site was enclosed by a wood post and wire mesh fence with a gate
located on the northern side. The site
has been maintained. A pine forest
surrounds the cemetery, and two pine trees are located within the
cemetery. No other plantings are present
in the cemetery. Site was field
inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed. Site size was determined by measuring the
horizontal extent of the surrounding
fence lines.
Survey Date: 2/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
Reference(s): None
Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period was based on
death dates observed on headstones.
These dates ranged from 1919 through 1989. The site was not marked by on the USGS Garden
City map sheet or on local realty maps.
A cement marker beside the cemetery gate bears a plaque which reads:
“This cemetery was established by James Demoss McGuire in the year 1929. It is one half (½) acre in size and has a
right of way to and from. The deed is
recorded in Roanoke County Court House Book Number 704, page 53 through 55
dated 29th day of November 1962.” All of
the cement headstones were well crafted, and a synthetic plaque inscribed with
biographical information on the deceased was affixed to each marker.
Marker Inscriptions:
McGuire McGuire Rachel J.
Kingery
Roy L. Sallie
Ann James Demoss
1907 - 1971
(granite marker with
metal marker) Asleep
in Jesus
(Double granite
marker)
McGuire-Kingery-Buckner
Cemetery (continued)
Mary Ann Kingery Alvin
C. Issac
Kingery
May 22, 1935 - Feb. 27, 1936 Kingery June
3, 1895 - May 16, 1960
(cement and uninscribed Virginia (cement
and metal markers)
fieldstone markers) PVT
2 Regt USMC
1 Div
World War II
(marble and metal markers)
Ada M. Kingery Elbert
A. Kingery Betty
J. Buckner
Born May 16, 1898 Oct.
1924 - March 1984 Jan.
27, 1932 -
Died May 27, 1979 (cement
& metal markers) (cement
marker)
(cement marker)
Clyde E. Buckner, Jr. Edna.
B. McGuire Infant
daughter of
June 1, 1930 - Dec. 16, 1933 Feb.
18, 1910 Roy
L. McGuire
(cement marker) May
20, 1989 April
1929
(granite marker) (cement
marker)